Chances are that you may not know a lot about everything, but
you know a lot about something. if you can write your own e-mails and send
a picture with them, you can probably write an article for savvysurvivor.
It does not need to be perfect, I can edit it.

As you may have noticed, savvysurvivor is growing and changing
almost every day now. The for sale section has greatly expanded and I am
going to be spending more time working on this site and developing it into
something better for the survival community.

In the last few months, one of my favorite magazines, American
Survival Guide, went out of business. Critics believe that the
magazine lost readership when it went more "mainstream" in an attempt
to appeal to the broader audience of Mother Earth News instead of the gun and
cammie set that commonly reads Soldier of Fortune. While SOF is
commonly available on military bases where you used to find ASG in the same
section. The publishers of ASG failed to realize two things. One
military people and survivalists are extremely can be loyal to the company and
its advertisers, and the movement has largely been made up of people with above
average intelligence in a culture that is often looking to the future.
That means that most of the readership is on the Internet in a big
way. They get their news from the Internet and commonly
socialize with people online more than people at the corner bar. Any
publication directed to these people needs to have a significant online presence
and ASG did not. SOF for that matter is rather pathetic online too and
that might have something to do with why they have been going downhill. .

I had written a couple of articles for ASG that were rejected
because they were too long and did not include enough pictures. Publishing
constraints in the printing business make it necessary to abbreviate articles in
order to save space for advertisers and money in production and
distribution. As you may be aware, publishing costs on the Internet
are dirt cheap, but people still demand good information and they will spend
money with advertisers that support the right publications.

Up to now, savvysurvivor.com has been primarily a gun interest
site, but the vision is to appeal to the broader interest without giving up the
cutting fringe gun interests and the international relevance. We
have readers in several different countries including the USA, Canada, Mexico,
Finland, Hong Kong, Israel, the Philippines, and all over the UK.

While this site has no discussion forums of its own, you are
encouraged to contribute articles. In the past, we have had a strict
code of anonymity, especially in regards to pictures submitted for the gun
pages. This policy is going to be altered to give credit to those
who write and contribute on non-gun articles. Unlike a printed
publication, your online articles will stay fresh much longer and can be edited
during and after initial publication. Better than a public forum
board where your time is spent answering a relatively small number of people in
a particular thread, your article on savvysurvivor will be treated as a real
article, not just a bit of opinion with some pictures.

So here is what we are looking for. If you have some
knowledge or an article about anything that might be of interest here, let me
know. Obviously, pictures are very important and the more the
better. It does not have to be about weapons or tactics, but anything that
might be of interest to the readers.

The only of genre articles that I will heavily edit are those
with an obviously localized political slant. It is not that we lack
sympathy for the Patriot movement, Irish liberation or the maintenance of the
British empire, Palestinian refugees or the right of Jews to live in the middle
East, but there are plenty of sites out there that push various political
agendas and viewpoints and that is not the purpose of this site.

So here is how you can make money. I am in the process of
adding page counters to several pages on the site. Each article will
get a page counter and the more hits you get on the page counter, the larger the
readership is on your articles. The larger the readership, then the
more it is worth for an advertiser to place a banner ad or item on the
page. Since this new phase is just starting out, there is no way to
establish the value of an article, but once we get this rolling, we will be able
to track this and actually create something of an ongoing residual income based
on how long your article keeps getting readers and advertisers keep sponsoring
it.